Gingerbread Lane

GingerBread Lane
Artist Jon Lovitch
Location Smithsonian Institution
New York Hall of Science
Capital Children's Museum, New York City
Philadelphia
Richmond, Virginia
Website gingerbread-lane.org

GingerBread Lane is a non-profit seasonal display of a handmade gingerbread village prepared by chef Jon Lovitch.[1] He has made the display every year since 1994.[2] GingerBread Lane has been featured in the Smithsonian Institution, Richmond, Virginia, Pittsburgh, PA, and the New York Hall of Science.[3]

The display requires about nine months and 1,500 hours to complete.[1][4][5]

2013 Gingerbread Lane

The 2013 Gingerbread Lane display was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science and weighed 1.5 tons and covered 300 square feet.[6] The display included 135 residential and 22 commercial buildings made of gingerbread along with trees, signs and five two-foot tall nutcrackers.[7] The display was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest gingerbread village on November 22, 2013.[7][8][9]

Process

Jon Lovitch, a Kansas City, Missouri-born chef, prepares all the ingredients for the display in his apartment, which is located in the South Bronx area of New York City.[10][11] He often works on the project in the evenings after returning from work at New York’s Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, where he is executive sous chef.[11] Lovitch personally purchases the display’s raw ingredients, which are often sourced from rural grocery stores he encounters while traveling.[12]

Lovitch prepares gingerbread, icing and other materials for the display throughout the year and stores completed gingerbread structures in an empty bedroom in his apartment.[12] He later assembles the village by hand at the exhibition site. The Gingerbread Lane display generally begins in November and lasts through early January.[13][14] Lovitch gives away pieces of the gingerbread village to visitors of the display following the last day of the exhibition.[15]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gingerbread Lane In Good Taste At Station Square". CBS Pittsburgh. Retrieved Oct 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ Lisa L. Colanego (November 18, 2013). "Chef crafts a 1.5 ton village of gingerbread, frosting and candy at the N.Y. Hall of Science". New York Daily News. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ "GingerBread Lane". Retrieved Oct 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ "For gingerbread man, it's Christmas in August". TribLIVE News. Retrieved Oct 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ "A Chef Built The World's Largest Gingerbread Village In His Bronx Apartment". Business Insider. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "New York Hall of Science to Unveil GingerBread Lane on Sunday". Brownstoner Queens. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  7. 1 2 WSJ Staff (13 December 2013). "Queens Gingerbread Village Is World’s Largest". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  8. ↑ Anita Hamilton (2 December 2013). "Baker of World’s Largest Edible Gingerbread Village Doesn’t Really Want You to Eat It". Time Magazine. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Koch baut größtes Lebkuchendorf der Welt". Die Welt. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  10. ↑ Denise Barnes (February 15, 2000). "Thinking outside the box D.C. Chef’s creations no bite-size bonbons". The Washington Times.
  11. 1 2 COREY KILGANNON (26 November 2013). "From a Bronx Apartment’s Oven, a Gingerbread Colossus Rises in Queens". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  12. 1 2 ASHLEY COLLMAN (13 December 2013). "Gingerbread Lane is world's largest edible village and chef spent NINE MONTHS constructing 300-square foot, 1.5 ton monolith in his New York City apartment". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  13. ↑ "Sweet City: Gingerbread Lane is product of chef's year-long passion". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved Oct 17, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Missouri last stop for Pittsburgh gingerbread train station". TribLIVE News. Retrieved Oct 17, 2013.
  15. ↑ LISA L. COLANGELO (13 January 2014). "Sharing the spoils of Gingerbread Lane". NY Daily News. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
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